[time-nuts] Centering ocxo

[Don Latham]

Please don't adjust the dampening, you might find it floating...
adjust the damping if you need to change the settling time.
Yours in pedantry-one of my hot buttons :-)
Don

Bill Dailey
> ok..  So that may very well be true of this unit.  Electrical tuning is
> 3E-7  0 - 5v (+/-).  It also lists a digital tuning range of +- 3Hz at
> 10MHz.  Correct me if I am wrong but that appears to mean 3Hz electrical
> and 6Hz digital tuning range.   I am not doing digital tuning but
> thought I
> would throw that out there.
>
> I have been trying to "optimize" parameters on this Fury board but it
> seems
> my "optimization" has just been increasing the deviation.  Running 1.8
> ns
> sd overnight with an average TI of about 26ns (was with my "optimized"
> settings)...the original settings were giving me a much lower
> deviation...I
> didnt log it but looking at the graph of frequency in excel I would say
> probably between 0.1-0.6 ns.  I just put it back on the original
> settings
> and am letting it settle now.  Was adjusting Dampening, EFCSCALE and DAC
> gain.  My observations reveal dampening makes it a bit slower to respond
> and perhaps settles it some, The efcscale seems to act as pure gain on
> top
> of the baseline dac gain which is essentially determined by the tuning
> range as you referred to.  What I saw with a low efcscale is that the TI
> was higher but the SD lower... with efc scale higher the TI was lower
> but
> the SD suffered.
>
> Since my goal here is low noise and very good short term stability I
> prefer
> the lower efcscale  (low gain with low SD).
>
> Let me know if I have any gross conceptual errors here or if I am
> looking
> at this properly.
>
> Doc
> KX0O
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> docdailey at gmail.com said:
>> > I am ok for awhile but how do you center the efc of an ocxo?  I
>> understand
>> > there is something (screw) to adjust the ocxo so it is approximately
>> on
>> freq
>> > with 2.5v efc.
>>
>> > Specific oscillator datum-1111c. I have he datasheet but doesn't say
>> "coarse
>> > frequency adjust this screw" or some such.
>>
>> There may not be a coarse adjustment.  If the tuning range is big
>> enough to
>> cover the aging over your design life, you don't need one.
>>
>>
>> There is a tradeoff between adjustment range and the number of bits
>> you
>> need
>> in a DAC to get a required accuracy.
>>
>> Suppose I have an adjustment range of 1 Hz (peak to peak) on a 10 MHz
>> oscillator.  That's 1 part is 10^7.  If I have a 10 bit DAC, I can
>> adjust
>> to
>> 1 part is 10^10.  A 20 bit DAC can get to 1 part is 10^13.
>>
>> But if the tuning range is 10 Hz, the same 20 bit DAC setup only gets
>> you
>> to
>> 1 part is 10^12.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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>
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